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– YESTERDAY – Most eventfully, Jess completed her first day of her new job. She’s working with a Myeloma study, and will be interacting with both patients, doctors, and other coordinators. It sounds like she pretty much jumped right in.

from Xylo, the Wolf Baron

4 MOST RECENT JOBS I’VE HAD IN MY LIFE
*Freelance Editor
*Writing Tutor
*Medical Temp
*Dishwasher

4 MOST RECENT MOVIES I’VE WATCHED OVER AND OVER
*Man on the Moon
*Young Frankenstein
*Casablanca
*Romeo and Juliet

4 MOST RECENT PLACES I HAVE LIVED
*Brooklyn, NY 11205
*Chicago, IL 60660
*Chicago, IL 60609
*Flint, MI 48506

4 MOST RECENT PLACES I’VE BEEN ON VACATION
* Chicago, IL
* Flint, MI
* Zanesville, OH
* Placencia, Belize

4 MOST TV SHOWS I’VE LOVED TO WATCH RECENTLY
* The O.C.

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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If we begin our account with this project of resisting the Enlightenment in the name of Enlightenment ideals, we can see how romanticism could at once make the crucial break with traditional art and become the blocking force against which modernism in the arts would eventually define itself.

– JESSICA – Starts her new job at New York Presbyterian doing Cancer research today. Congratulations Jess!

– WEEKEND – On Friday after work I had a bit of time before having to meet Jess. I walked to the Union Square Barnes & Noble and spent a half-hour poring over glossy photos of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Big Book With Three Pages for Every Year of Rock History Since 1950.

Well, I’m embarking on my next blitzkreig novel-writing project. This one will be a Zombie story, estimated length: 80,000 words, to be completed in the next month.

ZOMBIE ASPECTS:
My research is not extensive… I’ve brushed up by reading Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide and by watching or re-watching the four Romero Dead movies.

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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A century later, postmodernism would find itself obliged to posit various ways of undermining those ideals of self-legislation, forcing the arts back into their uncomfortable social contexts and foregrounding their intersections with “popular culture.”

– YESTERDAY – I spent the morning cleaning and doing financial junk, and then most of the afternoon watching zombie movies. I’ve now seen the official George Romero canon, and feel more-or-less equipped to start my zombie novel. More on that soon.

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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The noblest acts of mind would be those resisting the triumphant bourgeois order by positing forms of spiritual activity that neither fell back on religious superstition nor curried the favor of the newly dominant audiences.

– YESTERDAY – Got home from work, did some work, has a nice dinner with Jess (salad and tomato soup followed by wine and fondue) and watched Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket.
On other fronts, it’s supposed to rain across most of the northeast today, the Tigers lost (again) to the Yankees, but the Pistons are still barely holding on.

Nobody ever comments when I talk about the music I’m listening to, and besides, I don’t know sufficiently little that any assertation is somewhere between risky and a shot in the dark.

Now: What can you tell me about this?: